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Announcing the Location for DH 2020

Every three years, the Digital Humanities conference is held in North America. At DH2017, ADHO’s Steering Committee voted to hold DH2020 in Ottawa from July 22nd to July 24th 2020. The conference will be co-hosted by Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. The two universities have a history of DH collaboration and are partners on the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East, the only bilingual digital humanities summer training initiative in Canada.

Local organizers Constance Crompton, Shawn Graham, Brian Greenspan, and Kevin Kee have proposed Carrefour, the public gathering space at the crossroads, as the catalyzing theme. In addition to the customary modes of sharing our scholarship with one another and in keeping with the theme, DH2020 will bring the public into the university and will bring our scholarship out to the public through pop-up events, local resident passes, and public talks.

Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, is located on the border of Canada’s two most populous provinces, Ontario and Québec, on the traditional unceded land of the Kitchissippi Omàmiwininì Anishinabeg, or Algonquin Peoples of the Ottawa River. Founded in 1826, Ottawa became the capital of Canada in 1867. It is Canada’s fourth largest city and boasts rich multicultural government, arts, education, and tech sectors. Ottawa is an Anglicization of the Algonquin word awade meaning “to trade”. The local Ottawa team looks forward to welcoming the communities represented by ADHO and its constituent organizations to the city, a gathering place to trade and share skills, ideas, and knowledge.